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4ak96 t1_jeacwsn wrote

So at what point do the citizens actually use democracy to fix this?

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HeadPen5724 t1_jealgni wrote

When they start voting for candidates and stop voting for parties.

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chohls t1_jeapkyp wrote

Vermont just eelcted a Democrat supermajority, I doubt they give a damn about voting person over party

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kosmonautinVT t1_jeb6ymt wrote

It would help if the alternative weren't a bunch of shitheels.

The Republican party is functionally dead in this state and it's creating a real problem

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HeadPen5724 t1_jeccytg wrote

I would agree they’re functionally dead in this state, but the problem is people because of the party they’re auto labeled shitheels. When in reality I don’t think Scott is a shitheel, or Joe Benning, or Randy Brock, etc. sure there’s some whackos out there but we’d really do well if we stopped reducing every person under a party to that parties worst member. My $0.02

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Necessary_Cat_4801 t1_jeez3ad wrote

Well the governor is a shit heel and he got reelected by a very wide margin. Republican legislative candidates tend to be Trump loving goons, and they aren't getting elected here. Thankfully.

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HeadPen5724 t1_jeezspq wrote

Why do you think the governor is a shitheel? What has he done for you to form that opinion, because most people generally like him? I’m curious

I don’t think the general statement that Republican candidates in VT are Trump loving goons is remotely accurate. You should get out and talk to a few. Are there some? Sure, but are they all Trumpers? No not really.

They don’t get elected here because most people equate “R” to being a trump loving goon so they vote for whoever has a D or a P next to their name regardless of whether they have the slightest clue about the persons positions… and that’s actually the problem… ignorant voters who vote for a party and not a person 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Necessary_Cat_4801 t1_jef159j wrote

I don't, sorry that wasn't clear. Someone said Republicans lose because they're shit heels, that's why only democrats win. I just meant some Republicans can win if they aren't insane election deniers. They need to be in the new England republican mold of Charlie baker, Phil Scott, the guy in NH, etc.

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4ak96 t1_jeam0bz wrote

Okay so lets be real here 😂 cuz thats decades if not centuries away

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murrly t1_jeaqrey wrote

I mean the dems have a supermajority. Maybe stop voting for them if you don't like how things have been going for 40 years.

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wut_the_phuck t1_jeahioy wrote

I’m up for going to every dmv in the state and protesting.

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sarcasm_hurts t1_jeaogce wrote

Maybe go to the State House where the people who make the laws are. DMV employees don't get a say on the fees.

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4ak96 t1_jeahnwg wrote

Protesting doesn’t do anything these days. The people in charge are so powerful they just look out their office windows and say “How cute, they are cranky!”

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wut_the_phuck t1_jeailyw wrote

Protesting is ALWAYS the way. The problem we have these days is we cannot get the masses to come together on any one topic.

If we got every Vermonter together to flood the streets they would eventually give in.

What if we all didn’t register our cars in unison this year?

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4ak96 t1_jeairso wrote

The unified not registering is a good idea! They can’t pull EVERY vermonter over haha

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you_give_me_coupon t1_jeb5oih wrote

> Protesting doesn’t do anything these days.

Protesting in the American sense - effectively-sanctioned inner-city riots far from the seats of power, performative kumbaya-singing, etc - sure doesn't. We could take a cue from the French: they've been shutting down their country with enormous strikes, including the electrical workers' unions shutting off power selectively to the mansions of rich people and politicians. Unfathomably based.

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